Description:This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the first Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2009, held in Lyon, France, August 24-28,2009.The 16 full papers and two keynote papers were carefully selected from 34 submissions. This book considers issues such as appliance, business intelligence, cloud computing, complex event processing, database performance optimizations, green computing, data compression, disaster tolerance and recovery, energy and space efficiency, hardware innovations, high speed data generation, hybrid workloads or operational data warehousing, unstructured data management, software management and maintenance, virtualization and very large memory systems